Constrained Recombination in an Example-based Machine Translation System
Monica Gavrila · 2011
Constraints in natural language process-ing play an important role. In this pa-per we show which impact (word-order) constraints have on the translation re-sults, when they are applied in the re-combination step of a linear EBMT sys-tem. Both the baseline EBMT system and the constrained one are implemented during this research. In the experiments we use two language-pairs (Romanian-English and Romanian-German), in both directions of translations. In these lan-guage constellations, Romanian, an in-flected language with Latin root, is consid-ered under-resourced. This aspect makes the process of translation even more chal-lenging. 1